from: Dale Gieringer <dale@...>
reply-to: Dale Gieringer <dale@...>
date: Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:12 AM
subject: WAMM wins social action award



For immediate release:

Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana wins annual award by national
sociology organization

For more information: Michele Smith Koontz (SSSP Administrative
Officer) (865) 689-1531 <mkoontz3@...>


WAMM Wins Award


The national organization of sociologists, "The Society for the Study of
Social Problems," has named the California medical marijuana
organization, the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana, as the
recipient of its 2009 Social Action Award.

WAMM, which is a small patient-caregiver cooperative in Santa Cruz,
California, has collectively grown and given away millions of dollars
worth of cannabis to seriously and terminally ill people since the early
1990s. The organization is strictly not-for-profit.
The $1,000 Social Action Award will be presented to WAMM at the SSSP
annual dinner in San Francisco on Saturday August 8th at 8 p.m.

The organization is the subject of a recent ethnography by Wendy Chapkis
and Richard J. Webb, Dying to Get High: marijuana as medicine (New York
University Press 2008): http://www.dyingtogethigh.net

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Dale Gieringer - dale@...
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